Can't sleep because of one thought? Give it to tomorrow.
It's late, and one thought won't stop. This free two minute tool asks whether it needs you now or at 4pm tomorrow, folds it away, and gets you back to bed. Nothing stored.
Sep 8, 20264 min read
Written by The Thought Co.. Clinically reviewed by our team
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Chalk-on-black illustration of an alarm clock with the words the thought keeping you up has a 4 p.m. version that won't scare you at all, for when you can't sleep because of one thought
You've tried not thinking about it. That's the one thing a brain cannot do on request, so the thought comes back with a slightly better ending each round.
Just stop thinking about it.Give it a time and a place.daylight you is better at this
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Step 1 of 3
What's the thought?
Just the thought. Not the whole story. One or two lines.
Step 2 of 3
The thought, as you wrote it:
Does this need you at , or at 4pm tomorrow?
Step 3 of 3
Fair. What's the one thing you can do about it before morning?
Not the thing you'd do at 10am. The thing you can do from this bed, tonight.
Then do that.
Do it now, before the next thought arrives to argue. Then the phone goes face down.
The thought had one job for you and you've given it that. Anything else it says tonight is the same sentence in a different font.
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